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Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications “This is a story about kids succeeding, about the success of an experiment,” says Cabot professor of American literature Elisa New, describing the online poetry course she taught last fall to an unusual set of enrollees: eleventh- and twelfth-graders from more than two dozen Title I high schools (serving mainly low-income students) across the country. At the end of the semester, roughly 250 students came away with four credits from the Harvard Extension School and a wider sense, New suggests, of what other possibilities ...

When Nina C. de W. Ingrao taught Spanish, she stood in a Boylston Hall classroom “almost like the director of a symphony with this absolute grace, moving her hands in very precise motions to orchestrate grammatical exercises in the classroom,” according to Romance Languages and Literature professor Luis M. Girón-Negrón ’88. Girón-Negrón described moments like this — Ingrao “day in and day out in the classroom, doing what she did best without force, without drama” — as his strongest memories of Ingrao, a longtime colleague and friend. When “e...

What's True Nidhi Razdan announced in June 2020 that she was leaving her job as a television news anchor to join Harvard University as a journalism professor. She later said the job offer was a hoax designed to access her personal information. Harvard confirmed there was no evidence of the university hiring her. Razdan filed a complaint with the Delhi police. What's False Harvard University’s graduate and undergraduate programs do not offer journalism degrees, but their school of continuing education, which is a separate, open admissions program, does. What's Undetermined...

A popular Indian news anchor has revealed how she fell victim to an elaborate online phishing attack disguised as a dream job offer from Harvard University.   Nidhi Razdan, 43, who is a household name in India, resigned from national broadcaster NDTV in June 2020 after 21 years, believing she was about to take up a lecturing post at the Harvard Extension School. She had received several emails from people who she believed to be members of staff, accepted a job offer on official Harvard letterhead and had even taken part in a 'thorough' virtual interview.  However Razdan later discovered i...

‘Elaborate plan to steal money, personal data’: Journalist Nidhi Razdan on fake Harvard offer The former NDTV anchor said the sophisticated phishing attack was meant to access her bank account, emails, medical records and other personal information. A day after announcing that she was falsely led to believe that she had been offered a teaching position at Harvard, journalist Nidhi Razdan on Saturday alleged the entire process was an elaborate plan aimed at “stealing my money and taking my personal data to misuse it”. In a detailed account published in a blog on NDTV, Razdan said she ...